Lets Talk About Video Game Review Scores

A couple of weeks ago I made a post about the problem with modern game review scales. I talked about how we have been conditioned to view game scores a certain way. Most people are then influenced by the scores of a review and that affects the sales of a game. This is often unfair because A game that is actually good is overlooked and skipped by the majority of gamers. I was checking out video game images and I came across these awesome images that I think perfectly sum up what I was talking about. I wanted to share these with you guys and ask do you guys think their is a problem with modern game review scales? what do you guys think can be done about it if you do? and have you guys ever not got a game because of a review score?

Here we see a comparison of how most reviews are perceived and what the actual distribution should be. This scale is exactly like my personal scale when I review games.

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This other image even compares the scores to school grades like I did in my original post.

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This last one shows how the numbers below 7 become useless

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